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Haeckel respecting evolution requires us to believe that all 
the past and all the present forms of animal life have been 
evolved out of a structureless minute mass of mucous albumi- 
nous matter — minute protoplasms^ or bioplasms as they are 
called^ and that out of these formless masses^ by differentia- 
tion and natural selection^ man himself has been produced. 
Do we ask the professor to give the steps by which the won- 
derful changes have been effected, he is, we admit, ready with 
his answer ? 
The gradual development of man from bathybius is thus 
stated by Haeckel in his History of Creation, and implied in 
his Evolution of Man. 
Step 1 . Minute portions of structureless protoplasms — the 
monera of to-day — Organisms without Organs.^^ In 
the course of time, by differentiation an inner kernel was 
developed, and thus there was produced — 
Step 2. Single-celled creatures, like the amoeba of the present 
day. In the process of time these primordial creatures 
became sponges. 
Step 3. These associated amoeba gave birth to ciliated larva, 
which, by natural selection, produced a new race of 
beings, viz. : 
Step 4. Simple- stomached animals — primitive worms which, 
after untold ages, gave rise to — 
Step 5. Gliding worms, which, not being content we must 
suppose with their lowly estate, determined to improve 
their condition, and so gave birth to — 
Step 6. Soft worms — the scolecida. These creatures, by some 
unaccountable means, formed for themselves a true body 
cavity, and managed somehow or other — the professor 
does not say how — to possess blood. In the course of 
ages these soft worms gave rise to — 
Step 7. Sack-worms, which originated out of the former crea- 
tures by the formation of a dorsal nerve, and by the 
formation of a spinal rod, which lies between it. After 
many ages these creatures produced — 
Step 8 . Skulless animals like the present lancelet. These 
wise animals managed to produce a progeny in which the 
sexes were separate. In the course of time these crea- 
tures gave birth to quite a different race altogether, and 
thus were formed — 
Step 9. Single-nostrilled animals, which were developed out of 
the former by the anterior end of the dorsal marrow form- 
ing itself into a brain, and the chord into a skull. In the 
course of ages these creatures evolved themselves into — 
Step 10. Primaeval fish. In these animals the nostril divided 
